Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s fundraiser for Ukraine has topped the checklist of GoFundMe campaigns for 2022.
In response to the web giving platform’s annual 12 months in Assist report, over 28 million individuals both made or acquired donations this yr and over 76,000 of these got here collectively to help Mila and Ashton’s marketing campaign, elevating over $37 million.
The funds from “Stand With Ukraine” profit flexport.org and airbnb.org, organisations chosen by the couple to supply provides and short-term housing to households displaced by struggle. They contributed $3 million themselves.
It’s the second largest marketing campaign in GoFundMe historical past – Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurene Powell Jobs’ “Meals Fund”, arrange in the course of the pandemic to deal with meals insecurity throughout America, is the most important with over $45 million in donations and nonetheless counting.
Different celebrities who contributed to GoFundMe campaigns this yr embody actors and Wrexham FC homeowners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney who made £10,000 donations every to assist a 4-year-old lady with mind most cancers within the U.Ok. and star Kate Winslet who gave £17,000 to a mum in Eire, to assist cowl electrical energy prices for her daughter’s life help.
(Characteristic Picture Credit score: by way of GoFundMe)
